The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.
TONI MORRISONThere is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.
More Toni Morrison Quotes
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You don’t have to love me but you damn well have to respect me.
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Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It’s not having no responsibilitie s; it’s choosing the ones you want.
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose – not to need permission for desire – well now that was freedom.
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You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
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Racism will disappear when it’s no longer profitable, and no longer psychologically useful. And when that happens, it’ll be gone. But at the moment, people make a lot of money off of it, pro and con.
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Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe.
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Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.
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I don’t think one parent can raise a child. I don’t think two parents can raise a child. You really need the whole village.
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If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
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A friend gathers all the pieces and gives them back in the right order.
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But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
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You free. Nothing and nobody is obliged to save you but you.
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Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.
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I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.
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When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.
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